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INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS
International agreements on social insurance, or social security, as
the so-called instruments of coordination, enable a harmonized application
of national legislations of the countries-parties to the agreement in
the area of social insurance, which:
- guarantees equal treatment of the countries, namely the citizens
of both countries-parties to the agreement within the national legislations,
- establishes applicable legislation (rules on the basis of
which, in each concrete case, it can be precisely determined if to apply
the legislation of one, or the other country-party to the agreement),
- ensures keeping of the vested right, and
- guarantees the payment (transfer) of contributions in cases
of changing the residence and moving to the other country-party to the
agreement.
International agreements on social insurance can be complete and comprise
the whole area of social insurance (retirement and disability insurance,
health insurance, health care and maternity, work injury and occupational
disease insurance, unemployment insurance and child benefit), or partial,
comprising only certain branches of social insurance.
The first international agreement in the area of social insurance was
concluded in 1827 between the Grand Duchy of Parma and France.
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International Agreements
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